New Face: Penelope Cruz

AGE 25 Where you've seen her As the pregnant nun in Pedro Almodovar's All About My Mother. COMING SOON Woman on Top(playing a competitive chef), All the Pretty Horses (as Matt Damon's forbidden love interest), and Blow (she's Johnny Depp's cocaine-addicted wife). FUN FACT Cruz had to fly to Madrid, Rome, and New York to screen-test with Damon before she landed her role in Horses. ''I was so nervous every time I had to get onto another plane,'' says the actress. ''But deep in my heart I knew it was going to happen.'' FAVORITE MOVIE Two for the Road. ''It's the perfect timeless love story.'' WHERE SHE CELEBRATED THE MILLENNIUM Vacationing on a beach in Santo Domingo. THIS YEAR'S RESOLUTION To not be typecast as the ''Spanish enchantress.'' ''I liked Blow because it was a very dark part,'' she says. ''Ever since [Almodovar] gave me the opportunity to play the ugly woman in Live Flesh, I haven't been afraid.''